Chapter.2 Crisis is Opportunity is Crisis (8)
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Ji Ik- Tak.
Ji-ik – Tak.
Unlike my broken right leg, my left leg was functioning well, so I was able to move my body to some extent by putting on a splint and using the remaining pole as a cane.
[Warning – ‘Mutation Blood’ infection rate 40%]
“Cough! “Keuuuuuu!”
The professor’s body cringed as a strange pain penetrated into him through the wounds all over his body.
‘I’m so grateful… I’m so grateful.’
The cellular infection agent, which is the prototype of all mutation bloods, has two powerful characteristics: infectiousness and regenerative ability.
Following the Queen’s will at the cell level, it immediately invades the host’s body and erodes the body from the point of contact, taking control of the body.
At this time, it recognizes the eroded area as its own body, so it exerts its own regenerative power to damage the body. Begin to restore the part.
In other words, if the wound suffered by Mute has begun to recover, it can be considered that that part is already out of one’s control.
‘Legs… no, it’s up to the waist level.’
It was a very strange feeling. From a tickling sensation to a swarm of ants gnawing at the wound, to a sensation as if a small blade was cutting into the wound.
It was so painful that I wanted to cut out the wound with my own hands and throw it away, but the professor was happy about this situation.
‘Anyway, as the wound healed, moving became more comfortable.’
As I walked away from the battle area between Charlotte and Edeorna, I thought about it constantly. How can I contribute to this invisible battle? I checked each and every piece of warning information about mental breakdown that sounded like an alarm and tried to keep moving my body. I felt like I would lose consciousness if I stopped.
‘There is nothing I can do by getting involved in that battle. How to lead a battle to your advantage. Take advantage of your allies’ strengths and exploit the enemy’s weaknesses. Obviously… it was definitely there. It passed by in a blur, but it was definitely there somewhere.’
I forced myself to raise my head, which kept falling. Soldiers fighting Mute sporadically in the distance. And while I was thrown out and unconscious, Edeorna attacked me.
The corpses of the Wing Knights and the central army commander were lying a little away from the collision point between Charlotte and Edeorna.
The professor approached the tomb made of armor as if he were possessed.
Click, click, click!
It was moving. The knight, who had a fist-sized hole in his side, was wriggling his fingers to hold the sword that he had not yet been able to let go of, with bloodshot eyes and wide-open eyes. A movement close to rigor mortis, but clearly motivated by will.
The professor looked into the knight’s eyes. The two raised eyes, shedding something I don’t know whether it was blood or tears, were fixed in Charlotte’s direction. The knight was glaring endlessly at the enemy, constantly clicking his hand, which had even lost the strength to hold the sword.
Click, click, click!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.
Such small movements were everywhere. Those who have their arms cut off, those whose stomachs are torn and their internal organs spilling out, and those who spit out blood foam from their mouths. Everyone was lying down in the direction where Charlotte was.
Their every movement was saying one word. I earnestly sacrifice all that is left of my life.
The professor decided to listen to that.
Sigh-!
He dragged the corpse of the mutant lying nearby and decapitated it with all his might with a broken blade. Fresh blood poured out from the corpse of the recently dead mutant and poured down on the wounds of the fallen knight.
Chi-i-ik –
Red smoke was seen rising from the wound area, and flesh was noticeably growing. If the wound was healed to that extent, the infection rate would have immediately gone up by about 30%.
There may have been some infectious agents that came in through previous wounds, so the infection may have progressed to the point where purification is impossible due to my current actions.
Rather than dying at the hands of the enemy on the battlefield, the infectious agent penetrates into the brain, turning into a monster, and dying at the hands of one’s comrades. It is the most dishonorable death for a knight.
The knight’s head slowly turned and made eye contact with me. I wanted to apologize. My selfishness has tarnished your honor. That you denied your life.
“Cough! Cough! “Grrrrrrrrr!”
However, the direction the professor pointed while coughing up blood was still in the middle of a fierce battle.
“Grunt go… fight… growl!”
The knight was quietly looking at the professor. A chafed and broken leg, a shaking cane, and a straight finger pointing in the direction of his last remaining life.
The knight closed his eyes in silence. And
wow!
I held the sword as if it would break.
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Gagagagagak!
“Ugh!”
Charlotte, who barely managed to block the barrage of attacks like a flash, let out the breath she had received.
‘The situation is not good.’
She glared at the enemy’s disappearing figure, keeping the tip of the white spear aimed at the nape of the neck, waist, and knees in an instant.
‘The attack is light. I have no problem defending myself. But… my sword can’t even touch his body.’
Its attack wasn’t heavy, but it was very fast.
Each attack that comes in with a motion similar to shaking out the arm is a fatal attack that targets the gaps in the armor. Even though I tried to strike hard to widen the gap, the spear that came in contact with the sword retreated gently, leaving only the unpleasant sensation of cutting into the air.
‘I can take a light attack like this for three days and three nights, but…’
The root of the problem was that after the first clash, he flinched for a moment due to the speed that was faster than he could have imagined. Edeorna, who was thrown back by Charlotte’s sword, turned back and attacked the knights who had joined her, clearing out the other mutes behind her. By the time she got his attention again, all the knights had already suffered fatal injuries.
Kwasik-!
“Ugh!”
A sharp pain pierced her thoughts. The white spear he used was stuck in her left shoulder.
“You’re disheveled. “In the face of a strong enemy, should you focus your attention elsewhere?”
“Shut up…shut up!”
Charlotte gritted her teeth as she watched the spear beginning to form in his empty hand. A weapon of exactly the same type as the one stuck on his shoulder.
‘The color was similar, but I never thought it was a part of the body.’
Fighting hard!
“….this!”
Phew!
At that moment, a sharp pain began to spread around the tip of the spear stuck in my shoulder. When I quickly pulled out the spear, a piece of flesh caught on the tip of the spear, which had grown like a tree root, was ripped out.
“You have to be careful like that. Isn’t that a waste of meat being thrown away? If you are still worried about what is behind you, there is no need to worry. I didn’t kill it to keep it fresh. “I have no intention of serving rotten meat to my mother.”
“…I can’t stand watching a dirty monster imitating a human being because it’s so disgusting.”
“There is no need to look. “If you take out those big eyes, you won’t be able to see anymore.”
Sugak-
His figure disappeared from sight again. Charlotte strengthened the hand holding the sword. I didn’t have much strength in my left hand.
‘….is this the end?’
The enemy is a thorough out fighter. Even when his body was fine, he was only depleting his stamina within the range of the sword’s reach, but now he was even bleeding. It will circle around me without giving me space until I dry out and die.
‘Then you gain time. If you deal with him and get as far away from the battle area as possible, you will be able to buy time for the other knights to survive.’
After making up her mind, Charlotte changed her swordsmanship. Even if it meant taking some damage, I planned to keep him away from the battlefield.
Seaaak-
“It looks like you don’t have enough hands. “Isn’t the side empty?”
As soon as Charlotte rushed towards the pale shadow, Edeornna appeared to her left and stabbed a spear into her wide open abdomen. Instead of defending herself, Charlotte put more force into the sword she was swinging.
‘I’ll give you the flesh and give you the bones. But I will take at least one of your arms!’
Instead of defending herself, Charlotte exploded the power stored in her legs and ran forward. At the same time, a sunset-colored sword energy flowed across the sword surface in response to her will.
A pure white spear and a sunset-colored sword intersected.
‘I hope Your Majesty forgives the knight who failed to stay by his side until the end.’
Squeak-
Kaang!
One was blocked and one was reached.
Toouk.
“Oh my…. these lowly things are useless!!!”
A white arm cut off near the shoulder fell to the ground.
Charlotte was speechless as she looked at the owner of the sword blocking the white spear behind her.
“How did you…?”
“Forgive me for being late.”
Charlotte looked at the side of the knight raising his sword. Through the cracks in the armor, visible dark blue flesh was distorted as if a child had stuck mud to the dough.
“Night Narik. “I have returned.”
Clap, clap, clap.
Behind him, knights with similar appearances were walking.
“Night DeCarpo. “I’m coming back.”
“Night Tagnal. “I’m coming back.”
“Knight McCarlson. “I’m coming back.”
“Night Rodim. “I’m coming back.”
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Clap, clap, clap.
At some point, the knights who had started to gather around her were standing next to her and bowing their swords.
He is dirty and unbecoming of the name of a knight, and he appears to be struggling even to walk unsteadily. But none of them let go of their swords and none of them took their eyes off their enemy.
“….This is a dog’s death, Narik. “It would be difficult to lift a sword with that body.”
“I already have no feeling from the neck down. “I haven’t neglected my training, so I’ll be able to hold on to it with my own body at least once.”
“He is stronger than me.”
“Did you see it earlier? By the time I cut off his arm, Lord Agart had had enough time to slit my head, but he had gained some distance. “Apart from his combat power, he has little combat experience.”
“…If I had gone back, if I had come to my senses and moved towards the city, I might have survived.”
“The sun is still on the battlefield, so where can we go? “Sun of the battlefield.”
A smile appeared on Narik’s blood-stained lips.
‘This is ridiculous. My body has already turned into a monster and I am on the verge of death, but you can still make jokes about it.’
“…You guys have no plan.”
“You blame Sir Agath for teaching me that.”
Charlotte looked at the faces of the knights standing next to her one by one. Before she knew it, her face was also moist with a smile.
Thump and thud.
“If you survive, I will tell your names to His Majesty the King and honor him.”
“It is an honor to share our dawn. Night Charlotte.”
“Hehehe, the rumor I heard at the academy that the greatest knight in the kingdom was Crybaby was true.”
Charlotte did not hide her tears. It’s dawn. It would mean throwing down the body that is becoming the enemy’s and burning the last life. No one would say that a drop of tears is a luxury to send off these honorable knights.
A light resembling a sunset spread from Charlotte’s body as she stood in front of the knights’ formation and began to surround the knights.
The enemy was still watching the situation from afar. As Narik said, it looked as if it was scared, as it turned its body halfway and looked as if it would run away at any moment.
‘…. Their determination cannot be in vain.’
Charlotte raised her voice.
“White monster. Are you afraid of us?”
“Iik! Shut up! “On the topic of lowly meat!”
“If you are afraid, run away. Your mother, who has been waiting for you for several days and nights, is going to starve again today! “Go back and ask your hungry mother for one more arm!”
“How dare you… how dare you insult your mother!”
The enemy, who had been hesitatingly retreating, began to run forward with his torn eyes wide open at a few words of provocation.
‘As expected, he is young. The relaxed appearance at first goes nowhere and is easily disturbed by the slightest shock or provocation.’
Strategies to deal with him began to appear in Charlotte’s mind one by one.
“Tagnal Rodim. When the battle starts, grab his rear. It is not a siege. “You don’t have to participate in the attack, so just occupy the space where he can retreat.”
“All right.”
“DeCarpo McCarlson. I’m sorry, but my arms look like this. “Please defend and keep the left side in check.”
“Please leave it to me.”
“And you, Narik, will cut off his head with me.”
“yes.”
Evil –
I could hear the sound of a monster far away cutting through the wind. Charlotte took a step forward.
Tuhwaak!
The sunset-colored energy that exploded from her toes enveloped her entire body and flowed to the tip of her sword.
“The Knights of Roderick! “Balgeom!”
Cheok!
“From now on, we will slaughter our enemies for the well-being and peace of the kingdom!”
“Yes!”
“Today! Today is the day! In front of the late king’s name! Go to that sky without a single bit of shame! “Our sun rises from the embrace of our hometown!!!”
“You will lose the battle!!!”
“You will lose the battle!!!”
“You will lose the battlefield!!!!!!”
“die! “Apologise to your mother with your life, you lowly piece of meat!”
Clank, clank, clank, clank!
Seaaaaagh-
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Kwahiah Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The knights and the white monster rushed forward as one and collided.
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Shake it off!
‘Is this the beginning…’
The professor collapsed a little away and was looking at the area where he thought Charlotte and the knights were.
“The situation will be very different from before, you monster.”
The true power of the hero Charlotte de Agatte is not her individual combat power. Unbelievable tactical command and buff abilities that enable 200% of an individual’s combat power by reading the battle situation and deploying allies in the most appropriate locations.
Roderick’s First Knight is strongest when fighting together with his allies.
‘The era of the warlocks has only just begun, so Edeorna is probably less than a year old. If you start to lose your pace, you won’t know how to deal with it. You can inherit combat power from the queen, but you cannot receive combat experience.
We won this battle.
Coo!
The professor collapsed as he saw white and orange flashes intertwined in the distance.
Beep-! Beep-!
[Warning: ‘Mutation Blood’ infection rate 92%]
It was fortunate that there was a wound on my back. I haven’t felt any pain since I hit my spine.
“Haha, me too. You have to limit your overindulgence. “It’s a game at best, so why am I so hung up on it…”
I said it as if I was empty, but I actually knew the answer.
As they went around the battlefield pouring Mute’s blood, which was like poison, on the dying knights, none of them showed even a single trace of rejection.
Although he didn’t say anything, the professor wasn’t stupid enough to not know what they were thinking.
That was in their eyes. I can’t explain it, but just seeing it slowly wear away and disappear among people after the world’s destruction brings tears to my eyes. Something that makes it impossible for the viewer to just pass by.
“…I don’t know. Anyway, it was fun. “I just wanted the game to be fun.”
‘It’s the limit.’
The professor’s eyelids, which had been struggling to hold on, slowly began to fall.
Beep-!
[Warning: Abnormal logout detected. If you do not log out of the safe zone, the player’s character will move autonomously according to the game situation. Do you really want to log out?]
“Do it yourself. “I’m going to die anyway.”
This was the stage where the infectious agent began to affect the brain and auditory hallucinations began to occur. My character had no choice now.
[Don’t give up] As
the professor was slowly losing consciousness, his father’s voice sounded like a fantasy in his ears.
“…The person who passed away was busy. You saw it. Not giving up. “Don’t worry… go in… and rest…”
The professor lost consciousness and thought he heard his father laughing.
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